Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 November 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 11 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 12 - JobPath Employment Activation Service
Chapter 13 - Actuarial Review of Social Insurance Fund
Chapter 14 - Overpayments of Age-Related Jobseeker's Allowance
Chapter 20 - PRSI Contributions by the Self-Employed
2017 Social Insurance Fund
9:00 am
Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I have a question in the same field if that is okay. It relates to the process whereby the Department enters into arrangements for the repayment of overpayments, perhaps caused by accidental payments or rollovers.
Surely the Department has some sort of legislative backing for deducting money from existing social welfare payments rather than trying to get it back. If it has, why is it not using it? If some debts go back to the 1980s and the debtors are in receipt of social welfare in any form, surely there is a means by which small sums, say €5 a week, can be deducted, at least making some inroad.
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